Diocesan Assignments

Diocesan Assignments – September 3, 2022

PASTOR (RELIGIOUS ORDER)

Rev. Richard Riccioli, O.F.M. Conv., to pastor of Most Holy Trinity – St. Mary, Williamsburg, effective Aug. 15.

PAROCHIAL VICAR (RELIGIOUS ORDER)

Rev. Wilk Mieczyslaw, O.F.M. Conv., to parochial vicar of Most Holy Trinity – St. Mary, Williamsburg, effective Aug. 15.

Rev. Louis M. Smith, O.F.M. Conv., to parochial vicar of Most Holy Trinity – St. Mary, Williamsburg, effective Aug. 15.

Rev. Erick B. Vega, M.Afr., to parochial vicar of Our Lady of Light, St. Albans, effective Aug. 1.

RESIDENCE

Rev. Msgr. David L. Cassato, to residence at Our Lady of Mount Carmel – Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Williamsburg, while remaining vicar for Catholic schools, coordinator of ministry to Italian Immigrants, New York Police Department chaplain, and in senior priest status, effective June 30.

Rev. Michael J. McGee, to residence at Immaculate Conception, Astoria, while remaining in senior priest status, effective June 30.

Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. Healy, from residence at St. Michael, Sunset Park, to residence at the Bishop Mugavero Residence for Senior Priests, Douglaston, while remaining in senior priest status, effective July 20.

NON-INCARDINATED

Rev. Gonzalo Oajaca-Lopez, to vice-rector of Cathedral Seminary House of Formation, Douglaston, while remaining in ministry in Rockville Centre, effective Aug. 17.

Rev. Silvio A. Ortiz, to summer ministry at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph – Saint Teresa of Avila, Prospect Heights, effective Aug. 1., and to temporary ministry at Our Lady of Sorrows, Corona, effective Sept. 1.

Rev. Pierre J. Sevigne, to temporary residence at St. Michael, Sunset Park, effective July 30.

RELIGIOUS ORDER

Rev. Franklin E. Pilario, C.M., from resi- dence and ministry at St. John’s University, to leave the Diocese of Brooklyn, effective July 1.

Rev. James R. Cascione, C.Ss.R., from Parochial Vicar of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sunset Park, to leave the Diocese of Brooklyn, effective July 1.

Rev. Lucjan Szymanski, O.F.M. Conv., from parochial vicar of St. Adalbert, Elmhurst, to leave the Diocese of Brooklyn to minister with his Order, effective Aug. 15.

Rev. Nader Ata, O.F.M. Conv., from parochial vicar of Holy Trinity – St Mary, Williams- burg, to leave the Diocese of Brooklyn to minister with his Order, effective Aug. 15.

Rev. Tomasz Ryba, O.F.M. Conv., from parochial vicar of Most Holy Trinity – St. Mary, Williamsburg, to leave the Diocese of Brooklyn to minister with his order, effective Aug. 15.

Rev. Raphael Zwolenkiewicz, O.F.M. Conv., from pastor of Most Holy Trinity – St. Mary, Williamsburg, to leave the Diocese of Brooklyn to minister with his Order, effective Aug. 15.

Rev. Hung Duc Joseph Tran, C.Ss.R., from Parochial Vicar of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Sunset Park, to leave the Diocese of Brooklyn, effective July 1.

SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT

Rev. Paul Y. Kim, to coordinator of ministry to Korean Immigrants, while remaining administrator of St. Raphael, Long Island City, effective June 30.

DEACON

Deacon Eduardo Sencion, to move to residence to Scranton, Pennsylvania, while remaining in retired status, effective June 30.